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ELEVATED RAILWAY GATE.

Patented Aug. 23, 1887.

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LEONIDA RINALDI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ELEVATED-RAILWAY GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,783, dated August23, 1887,

Application filed June 4, 1887. Serial No. 240,267. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONIDA RINALDI, a citizen of the United States,residing in New York, in the county and State of New York, have inventeda new and Improved Elevated Railway Gate, of which the followingisafull, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a novel form of gate that is applicable foruse in connection with railway-stations, the device, however, beingespecially adapted for use in connection with elevated railway stations,whereon large crowds are apt to congregate at certain hours of the day,thus endangering the lives of the passengers, owing to the liability ofthose upon the outside to be forced from the platform and onto thetracks; and it is to prevent such accidents that I have invented thegate forming the subjectmatter of this application.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement ofparts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views. I

Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of astation, the railing beingrepresented as it appears when its ports are moved to a position out ofregister with the barriers. Fig. 2 is a similar view, representing therailing as it appears when in the closed position. Fig. 3 is a view of aportion of a train, representing said train in position so that itsplatforms'register with the ports of the railing when said railingis inthe position in which it is shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4. is an end view of aportion of a car constructed to operate in connection with my improvedgate. Fig. 5 is a detail view, representing one end of the movablerailing and its connections. Fig. 6 is a view of the rear end of atrain, representing it in connection with a station provided with myimproved form of gate; and Fig. 7 is a diagram illustrating the relativepositions of the cars and the movable railing, the railing being shownas open upon one side of the diagram and as closed upon the other.

In the drawings, 10 represents a railwaystation, of which 11 is theroad-bed and 12 the platform. Upon this platform I mount a railing, 13,which extends the full length of the platform, said railing beingsupported by lower rollers, 14, which ride upon a proper track fixed tothe platform, and by upper rollers, 15,which ride upon a rail, 16, thatis supported by the roof-posts 17.

Near the forward end of the railing 13 there is an outwardly-extendingprojection,20, which extends into the path of aswinging projection, 21,that is carried by one of the forward cars or by the engine of thetrain, while to the rear end of the railing there is connected aweight,22, this connection being established by means of a chain or wire rope,23,which extends from the weight over spring-supported sheaves 24 to therailing 13, and this weight 22 is housed within a tube or box, 25, inthe lower portion of which there is arranged a buffer-spring, 26. Amanipulating-cord, 30, is connected to the stop 21, and by pulling uponthis cord the stop may be lowered so that it will not strike aga nst theprojection 20 as the train passes thestation.

In the railing 13 there are formed a number of ports or openings, 3,which normally register with barriers 4, that are rigidly connected tothe platform 12 just within the railing 13.

Such being the general construction of the gate, the operation is asfollows: As a train approaches the station the proj ection 21 strikesagainst the projection 20, and the railing 13 1s carried from theposition in which it is shown in Fig. 2 to the position in which it isshownv in Fig. 1, the ports or openings 3, that are formed in therailing 13, being thus moved from their position in register with thebarriers or gates to a position so that the ports will register with theplatforms of the cars, as indicated to the right in Fig. 7, the train111 "said figure being supposed to be moving in the direction of thearrow shown in connection 7 therewith. After the passengers haveleft andboarded the train, the operatingcord 30 is drawn upon, and. theprojection 21 is moved IOO 1. In a railway-gate, the combination of alower supported rollers, of a weight, 22, a movable railing mounted onways and prospring, 26, arranged in connection with said vided withports and with a fixed projection weight, aprojection, 20, carried bytherailing,

- extending into the path of a proj eotion carried and barriers-4, fixedto the platform in oonnec- 15 by the train, fixed barriers, and a weight0011- I tion with which the railing is arranged, subnected to therailing and adapted to hold the stantiall y as described. railing in itsnormal position with the ports thereof in register with the fixedbarriers, sub- LEONIDA RINALDI' stantially as herein shown anddescribed.

2. The combination,with a rai1ing,13, formed with ports 3iand'mountedupon upper and Witnesses:

EDWARD KENT, Jr., C. SEDGwIoK.

